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description: Let us cut our way through the infidel force and gain some secure fortress, from whence we may return with augmented numbers for the rescue of the city.” Who acts: you, us, we. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., with its 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 10

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Let us cut our way through the infidel force and gain some secure fortress, from whence we may return with augmented numbers for the rescue of the city.”

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**Who acts:** you, us, we · **What happens:** let, cut, gain, return, augment, rescue · **To what, where:** us, way, infidel force, secure fortress, city

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:29:10
# text = Let us cut our way through the infidel force and gain some secure fortress, from whence we may return with augmented numbers for the rescue of the city.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	infidel	infidel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	augmented	augment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive | us *not said here* | our way |  | the infidel force |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 3 | **gain** | present | us *not said here* | some secure fortress |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | may | we |  |  |  |  | with augmented numbers; for the rescue of the city; whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **augment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **rescue** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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